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SPRING COMES TO THE FRONTIER NURSE-l\IID\\'IFl·}    
THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN uf THE FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, Inc. V 
Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Lexington, Ky. I
Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year
 
VOLUME 18 SPRING, 1943 NUMBER 4 E
"Entered as second class matter June 30, 1926. at the Post Office at Lexington, Ky., '
under Act of March 3, 1879."
Copyright 1943 Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. .
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  ARTICLE AUTHOR PAGE
    A Dream Come True (illustrated) Vanda Summers 36
‘  _\_    ( A Welcome Letter 47 '
  }`        A Year Seen From Horseback Rose Avery 42
  ».V'   ` Beyond the Mountains ~ 48
° ,;_.f  _·‘   Birthplace of Walter Reed (illustrated) ` 2
  Children of Dr. and Mrs. Kooser Inside Back Cover
  "Dulce Et Decorum Est
    Pro Patria Mori" Lt. Gaines McMillan 14
  Field Notes (illustrated) 62
 f '   In Memoriam 18
    It Rained and Rained and Rained E. N. Kelly 8
  A__.   Old Courier News 15
  Old Staff News 27
  The Mother (illustrated) Lady Glenconner
      .·;._   Drawings by Irene Cnllis 29
  The Pages Turn Back Dorothy F. Buck 3
  1 Trip of a Trustee Mrs. Walter B. Mcllvain 11
n      Urgent Needs 21
  Wanted on Cutshin Marjorie Jackson 45
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      BRIEF BITS
_   Acknowledgments 38
  __ ~ "Come Again Later!" English Newspaper 67 I
  Connecticut Cadet to His Unborn Child N. Y. Herald Tribune 7
`  `V .  Dear Diary G. S. 13
g Directions for Shipping 70
» Dog Days · Louisville Courier Journal 26
      God Offers to Every Mind Emerson 44 l
?“2.&i.:‘  Good Business Toronto Globe and Mail 35
  I Joy Three Poets 20
%i_j§~'»°l?  Just Jokes, Meek Men 61
    _ Mare's S.O.S. Call to Her Master Light 10
 §*  Newspaper Reporters and Columnists Raymond Morley 26
£»?`?;§`¤i`  1;*. Sayings of the Children 20
°`*°"a“· - __ Separation Walter Sai•a.ge Landor 46
2   The Plaintiff Rests Exchange 35
‘   We May Be in the Universe . William James 44
When a Man Sets Out Henry Ford 44
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  BIRTHPLACE OF MAJOR WALTER REED  
-  GLOUCESTER COUNTY, VIRGINIA  
g Born September 13, 1851 *
  Died November 23, 1902 f
i Many of the shrines to which we Americans make pilgrimage are I
T cabins, and we lavish upon them restorations and monuments while we I
  continue to neglect the birth of children in cabins. Belroi has been .
  "restored" to where it bears a faint resemblance only to the original y.
, dwelling,—the cabin whose mute patience testifies to the untended birth g
‘ of genius. ·1
_ Americans have forgotten the ravages of yellow fever in ninety-iive  
{ epidemics in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Memphis, Charleston,- Norfolk, _;
Galveston, New York, Baltimore and that in one epidemic there were not  
Q less than one hundred thousand deaths. They have almost forgotten that, ji
‘ but for the researches of Major Reed and his Army associates in Cuba, {
; we never could have built the Panama Canal and, without it, mi ht have  
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lost this current World War. Most Americans have altogether forgotten  
that privates of the U. S. Army volunteered for experimentation to be ·· _ 
bitten by yellow fever mosquitoes "without compensation" and "in the inter- E  
est of humanity and the cause of science." Let us at least remember Major  
Reed’s comment on these rivate soldiers: "In my o inion, this exhibition <
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of moral courage has never been surpassed in the annals of the Army of j
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__  ‘ DOROTHY F. BUOK, R.N., s.c.M., M.A.
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  } When we first began work in the Beech Fork district, there
3 was an empty house on its edge where a young mother had died
 · in childbirth. The people used to tell us that sometimes when
Q  l passing they could still hear the drip—drip—drip of the blood
  falling upon the iioor and the sighing breaths of the dying
- l mother.
  It is now nearly eighteen years since the Frontier Nursing 4
  Service (then called the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and
Qui Babies) began its use of nurse-midwives in the attempt to keep
  such sounds from haunting other mountain cabins. We have
  seen many changes. Among the most recent of these is the
x Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery which helps provide _
I ; nurse-midwives for other rural areas whose health problems
  have been intensified by this second World War.
f When we listen to the problems of our graduates scattered
  throughout the South and Southwest, we turn back the pages
i to our own early beginnings when, for us too, obstacles loomed
  large and results seemed slow in coming. Among the most .  
  vivid are pages dealing with Beech Fork, our first outlying dis-
  trict, the district where the haunted house stood.
i The problem of personnel for our work was huge in those
  days. The United States had no nurse-midwives and no schools
§ where such could be trained. N urse-midwives had to come from
  England; or American nurses went to England for graduate ,
  training in midwifery. Although both methods were not only A
7 expensive but also time consuming, we began further back than
  that in the preparation of the nurse-midwives destined to start
  the work at Beech Fork.
  When the Frontier Nursing Service was only an idea and
 “  Mrs. Breckinridge was working in France with the American
il l Committee for Devastated France she met Miss Gladys Peacock,
* 4 an Englishwoman who had stopped her training as a profes-
i sional singer to become a licensed mechanic and was driving a
  camion. for the Committee. Mrs. Breckinridge interested her in
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  coming to America and taking her nurse’s training in prepara-  
  tion for the work Mrs. Breckinridge planned to start in Ken- `  
Y tucky. After her general training Miss Peacock had to return  Q
A to England for her midwifery course. The Frontier Nursing  
A Service gave her a scholarship for this and another to one of ··`· .
, her classmates, Miss Mary B. Willeford of Texas, whom she s 
  had interested in the Service. It was these two nurse-midwives 1
  who, two and a half months after their return from England,  1
  were chosen to start the first outlying center of the Service. ;
  In the Quarterly Bulletin for October, 1926, we read:  
1 "The Jessie Preston Draper Center i g
Z "This is going up, as this Bulletin appears, on a lovely site  
at the mouth of Bad Creek, just above where Beech Fork and  
,, Middlefork come together. Miss Peacock and Miss Willeford, ¢_· Y
S. carrying on with dispensary and living quarters in two rooms J
 . at a local landowner’s, are almost literally building it with their  
_ own hands. It takes a team from here over three days and g
  nights to make a trip out to the railroad and back for supplies."  
  Between supervising the carpenters, the plumbers, the stone  
  masons, and the plain day laborers, Peacock and Willeford went   .
  about among the people doing their daily nursing work and  
  hoping always for a delivery. Finally they appealed to Mrs.  
  Breckinridge. When she wrote them to "sell their personalities,"  
  Peacock replied that they had worn out the seats of their l
Q breeches sitting around on split bottomed chairs trying to do  
  just that. But they were doing more than sitting. Following j
  their Medical Routines, they were getting the children wormed, i
  getting people vaccinated against typhoid and diphtheria, band-  
Y . aging cut arms and legs, putting soothing salve on painful burns,  
, giving advice on the care of the babies and bedside care to the g
  sick. They were winning confidence, but slowly. No deliveries  
T came. Still the mothers went to the old granny women. Still .
·` only an axe under the bed stood between the patient and the _
  fatal hemorrhage.  
` Then one morning, three months and nineteen days after  
they had started work in the district, an expectant mother did    
register with them. She already had three children and the W
fourth was expected in another month. Although it would mean  
a six mile ride over one of the steepest mountains in the district,  
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; there was loud rejoicing by the nurse-midwives. At last they
  could "catch" a baby. They could show the people how much
 ii easier they could make things, how much safer mother and baby
  would be. Alas! The next week Miss Willeford visited Emily.
-;*4  All went well until she wanted to examine her abdomen—then
A  the patient quietly left the house. Before the next visit of a
  nurse—midwife Emily had been delivered by one of the grannies
f living near her. `
Q Soon after this Peacock and Willeford moved into the Jessie
  Preston Draper Center, although it was far from completed
  g and was more like a camp than a house. Still they had another
§ month to wait before anyone else came to register for delivery.
 i Then one day, as they were cooking around an open fire in the
  yard, Oma came up. She was expecting her first baby in two
_ months’ time. Her father believed in education and thought .
C that, since the "foreign women" had been better taught than 
  the grannies, they should know more about waiting on women
  in childbirth. He had "kept after" Oma to register and here she
  was. Thus it was that, over seven months after starting work
  in the district, a nurse-midwife had her first delivery and Oma
  ' a lovely baby daughter.
  In the two months between the time Oma registered and
;· the birth of her baby, five other women registered with the I
  "brought-on" nurses. Of these, three were finally delivered by l
  local midwives. It was no wonder. The people were not used to b
5 professional assistance and many were the tales that passed
  from mouth to mouth: the "doctor women" would sure turn the
  baby boys into bears; they were there to sit by the women and
  give them something to kill them; they put things up "the hind
  part" of babies (a thermometer?) to kill them. Is it any wonder i
g that mothers hesitated to entrust themselves to such monsters?
. The nurse—midwives could only hope that the prenatal care they
4 had given the patients would make them a little better prepared
i_ to meet the strain of labor without expert help.
  Nancy Ann was one of the two who, despite all the tales,
N  d ·` stayed bythe "fotched-on women" and lucky for her she did.
`  I The call came about 1 a. m. on the fourth of July. "Hurry, my
ii woman is floodin’." Both nurse-midwives answered the call,
  hoping that things wouldn’t be so bad after all, but when they
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  got there they found the worst—a placenta praevia. A message  
  was sent to Hyden and the two settled down to watch and work  
~ and wait. They packed-a hard and frightening task. After a  _;
four hour ride the supervisor from Hyden came to help, but  
she was only a nurse-midwife herself and it was a doctor who · j `
, was wanted—desperately. `;
,_ Meanwhile at headquarters at Wendover they were busy. E 
  This was before the Service had its own Medical Director or  
  Hospital, and the region was too poor to maintain a health  
  officer. The nearest doctor was away for the summer. We sent  
  a messenger to the next doctor (in Bell county). After spend- ..
Q ing the whole day riding to Beverly and back, the messenger  
returned with the news that that doctor was away getting mar-  
. ried. After another time-consuming struggle, a doctor was _ Q 
 E reached in Harlan county—but he would not come. Finally in  
* Hazard, Perry county, thirty-three miles away, a doctor was  
 ‘ found who promised to come. Thus about midnight on July 5th  
  Dr. Boggs arrived on horseback. With what relief the nurse-  
2 midwives must have welcomed him! With what misgivings they  
  must have seen him leave the next day! .  
55 The doctor could not stay, but the nurse-midwives must.  
, They must be on duty day and night. There was no hospital   ‘
 . to which the patient could be sent, and she must have constant   R
  watching. Two days later the bleeding again became alarming.  
  Again the packing, the hurried call for the doctor, and again the  
 r thirty-three mile ride through the night, the clipperty-clip of  
  Snip’s feet* as he bore Dr. Boggs to the rescue. This time labor  
  was advanced far enough, and at three-thirty in the morning ’
  of July 9th by the light of flashlights and with one of the nurse-  
S  midwives giving the anesthesia, Dr. Boggs performed an internal  
 S version and delivered Nancy Ann. The baby was dead, but  
  Nancy Ann lived—lived to care for her other six small sons.  
  Such was the beginning of the work at Beech Fork. Since yl
 j that time the haunted house where the young mother died has  
  burned down and the sound of dripping blood has ceased. The  
Frontier Nursing Service has now delivered more than 600 ¤ `ill '.
women in the Beech Fork district. The success iinally achieved \_ ?
by the nurse-midwives in "selling their personalities" is typified  ~
' Dr. Boggs' horse, Snip, was later given to the Frontier Nursing Service. j.
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  by a letter one of the fathers from that district, who 1S now
  serving in the army, recently wrote from his camp to a nurse-
  midwife at Beech Fork:
 li , ARMY AIR FORCES
` X  Headquarters
  Air Service Command
Q FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE.
  DEAR MADAMS
  I am sending in my anual dollar for 1943 with best
,, wishes that it coulden,t be spent for A better mean-
 ; ing and help to my faimly.
  For you will be needed moore in the homes
~’ of Leslie CO. while men are away in the Army.
‘ ;  Hopeing you success.
  YOURS TRULY
  ULLEYSEES HOWARD
  (Signed: U.S.Howard)
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  CONNECTICUT CADET WRITES UNBORN CHILD: HAVE FAITH
{ Student Flye1·’s Letter Printed in Maxwell Field Magazine
y .
  . MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 22 (AP)—A letter to his unborn child ,
  from Aviation Cadet Robert A. Keyworth, twenty-five years old, of Nor- {
  walk, Conn., is featured in the April issue of "Preiiight," magazine of the
i` Maxwell Field Predight School, today. ,
  The letter said, in part:
  "The country, which in a few short weeks will claim you as one of
? its newest citizens, is iighting for its national existence. Your mother
_; waits alone at home to bring you into the world while your father pre-
Q pares for whatever may be his share of the combat which lies ahead. ,
_g The risks are great and, though my comrades in uniform laugh with me
  as we joke of future danger, still in each of our hearts is the quieting
_; knowledge that some day soon we must prepare ourselves to face the
?‘ iinal fact of death.
l "Forgetting all else, if you choose, remember what I say to you now.
  The army in which I am a soldier provides a corps of chaplains to min-
·‘ ister to the spiritual needs of all the men in uniform wherever on the
{ globe they may find themselves. These men of God had given to me two
jj words on which to base my courage and my hope of a better time. These ·
if . simple words encompass all that I know, all that I would be able to tell
 ’ you in ten thousand others. Accept them, use them each day that you
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A  ‘ live in all your dealings with people and situations and yours will be the
 ; happy life. They are: Have faith!"
  —New York Herald Tribune, April 23, 1943.
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. ELSIE N. KELLY, R.N., s.C.M.   V
Frontier Nurse-Midwife at the Belle Barrett Hughitt Center at Brutus   l
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  It wasn’t raining when I started. We were going to have l A
  the rare treat of fresh pork chops for dinner, and I was dis-  
  cussing the supporting menu with Sadie when we saw Howard { 
f coming. He told me that Cornelia was bleeding, so I didn’t pay  
{ any attention to the gathering clouds, but started off full speed gl
without a raincoat.  
*It is a dreadful place to get to, where she lives. The moun—  
; tain trail goes up a creek bed for a mile, then winds up the  
¤ mountain following the creek, and the poor horse has to clamber S;
i over rocks and up waterfalls, over tree roots and through loose  
_ gravel and mud, up and up. Then there is a tiny footpath  
  through thick brush for a couple of miles, cluttered with fallen y
  trees which have to be gotten around or climbed over, until one  
  comes to a clearing surrounded by lovely pine trees and little l
  V Christmas trees, and here is the log cabin.
Q It is a very tumble-down cabin; the roof leaks in several j
  places; there is no grate, just a hearth for a log fire; the chim- ~
  ney smokes badly; the lofting is missing in places, letting the "
  smoke and cold air down into the room; there are no windows, ·  
  just a hole with a shutter; no barn to put one’s horse out of .
  the wet.  
  I found Cornelia in bad shape, so sent Clinton off on my  
*  horse to get Dr. Caffee at Oneida Hospital, Clay County, if he l
 is could (because he was a little nearer Cornelia’s house than our  
Q Medical Director at Hyden) whilst I did my best. By this time  
  it was raining, a cold sleeting rain, and the house was bitterly l
I cold. 2
{ Whilst I was doing what I could for Cornelia, her eldest  
child, twelve-year-old Viney, was cooking supper, and I shared  __
` the meal of fried sweet potatoes and flour gravy only. No pork _ ` }
"‘ This family had just moved onto a mountain at the extreme edge of Miss Kel1y‘s  
district and the patient had registered Just the day before she delivered. There X
had been no time for prenatal care or social service.  
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§ chops for them! The children were cold, and we needed the
  hurricane lantern in the room with Cornelia, so Viney and I
`· made up a bed of quilts on a dry spot on the kitchen iloor, and
  all six children packed themselves in like sardines in a tin.
I  V All the time it rained, and rained, and rained.
Q Four hours later Clinton came back with Dr. Caffee on a
{ - borrowed horse, both of them soaked to the skin. This doctor
  is tall and, when he straightened up, his head touched the loft-
 ‘ j ing. We had nothing with which to work but the contents of
 J our saddlebags, a dishpan, and a battered coffee pot to heat
 j, water. It held a quart. When, after several anxious hours, wee
  premature Malvina arrived we had to tip Cornelia’s fruit
  jars out of a cupboard box for a bed for the baby. A small
` pillow for a mattress, a quilt top to drape the box and make
  it warm, an old pair of underwear for bedclothes, and a fruit
  jar of hot water for heating, and we had an incubator for our
  premature baby. We dressed her in cotton wool.
  Cornelia gave us cause for anxiety, and it was several hours
E before we could pronounce mother and baby out of danger, and
`· prepare to leave, shuddering at the thought of the cold rain.
There was a crash and a snort, and I ran outside to find
Pal with a section of fence hanging to his bridle. He had got
Q cold and decided to go home, so had pulled the fence down.  
·1 His bridle was broken, and Clinton had to tie it for me with a
  bootlace. .
g Pal knows that path pretty well, which is a good thing, as
Q it was so dark I never would have got the doctor back across
  those mountains without my horse. The rain poured steadily,
z and the wet bushes smacked in our faces and cascaded cold i
  water down our necks. The hill was the worst part of the jour-
E ney. We slithered and slid, and stubbed our toes on rocks, and
I our horses slid down on top of us.
` I called out to the doctor, "This isn’t much fun, is it ‘?" and
  he answered, "Well, it is an experience, but if it had- been day-
 ;_, light and I had seen this hill, I never would have come up it."
} I found out afterwards that this doctor is a non-rider, and am ‘
  amazed at his courage, riding over that awful trail on such a
  night. ,
  We got to the place where a car should have been waiting
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  to take Dr. Caffee home, but found the driver had tired of wait-  
  1ng, and gone home, so we had another two miles to ride to get  
o up with him and his car. The doctor was so stiff he had trouble 3
_ dismounting, and it was only then that I suspected that he was  
not an accomplished rider, so uncomplainingly and hero1ca1ly ,;” 
¤ had he kept up. V
  I got home about 5:00 a. m. and found my pork chops in E 
  the oven, cold alas, but I ate them and enjoyed them before I  5
fi went to bed.  V
? MARE’S S.0.S. CALL T0 HER MASTER  
The late Mr. E. R. Calthrop kept a large stud of horses, and amongst  
them was a favourite mare named "Windermere." In his book The Horse R
as Comrade cmd Friend, he describes this strange experience in the follow-  
; ing words: gk
z "In the early morning of the 18th March, 1913, at 3:20 a.m., I was 1
, awakened from the most dense sleep, not by any noise or neighing, but  
* by a call conveyed to me·—I know not how—from ‘Windermere.’ I could Q
hear nothing, not a sound outside, although it was a perfectly still night, g
  but as I became fully conscious I felt the callin my brain and nerves, and 13
g, I knew that ‘Windermere' was in direst extremity, and was entreating me Q
  to come instantly to her aid. ,·,
  "I threw on a coat over my pyjamas, pulled on my boots, and ran  
  across the garden for all I was worth. There was no cry, but in some  
_ extraordinary way I could tell exactly from what direction this soundless  
‘ S.O.S. call was coming, although it was perceptibly feebler than when it i
  awoke me. As soon as I left the house I realised,_to my horror, that the  
‘¤ call came from the direction of the pond. I ran on, but the S.O.S. became _:
,, fainter and fainter, and had ceased altogether before I could get to the  
_ pond. As I came near, I could just make out the surface of the water  
’ covered with ripples, which had not yet subsided, and, in the centre, a  
 _ dark mass silhouetted against the redection of the dim light of the sky.  
  I knew it was the body of poor ‘Windermere’ and that she was dead. _}
gl "The poor mare was not got out until midday, and it was not till {
g then that we undertsood exactly what had happened. That she had evi- {
? dently gone for a drink from the steep side of the dam and had slipped il
  in, we already knew from the marks on the grass, which were plain to X
{ see; but we could not understand why she had not been able to swim E
 i` K lashore. In the water, which was very deep, she had struck out to swim i
, and in some way had thrown her right foot through her head-stall. She ··
F had made a most gallant struggle to free her leg, as the condition of the  
·i headstall showed. She had broken part, and the rest was nearly broken  
" through—a little more and she would have been free. In her death agony {
._ she slipped a filly foal by Rohan, and its poor little body was found beside é
r its m0ther’s.